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Supreme Court strikes marriage law

BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California.

The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay mar-

riage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits.

The other was a technical ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court’s declaration that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

That outcome probably will allow state officials to order the resumption of same-sex weddings in the nation’s most populous state in about a month.

In neither case did the

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court make a sweeping statement, either in favor of or against same-sex marriage. And in a sign that neither victory was complete for gay rights, the high court said nothing about the validity of gay marriage bans in California and roughly three dozen other states. A separate provision of the federal marriage law that allows a state to not recognize a same-sex union from elsewhere remains in place.

President Barack Obama praised the court’s

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ruling on the federal marriage act, which he labeled “discrimination enshrined in law.”

“It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people,” Obama said in a statement. “The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it.”

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he was disappointed in the outcome of the federal marriage case and hoped states continue to define

marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

The ruling in the California case was not along ideological lines. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia.

“We have no authority to decide this case on the merits, and neither did the 9th Circuit,” Roberts said, referring to the federal appeals court that also struck down Proposi-

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breaking and entering.

He was expected to be arraigned in Miami County Municipal Court this morning.

In addition, Schiessler was charged with probation/parole violation and had an active warrant out for his arrest related to drugs out of Montgomery County.

Piqua police Deputy Chief Marty Grove said police were called to the vicinity of the crime two times prior to the robbery, first at 4 a.m. and then again at

PIQUA — Piqua Board of Education met at 7 p.m., Wednesday at the Municipal Government Complex.

Recognized were Misty Iddings as PCS Classified Employee of the Year and Kim Didier as Teacher of the Year.

In the Superintendent’s Report, an update was given on the Washington and Springcreek school sites.

At the Washington school site, the top soil has been stripped and storm lines. It was mentioned that the demolition of the existing building will begin July 9.

The gym walls are up at the Springcreek school site and a retention pond has been put in to collect storm water.

In the near future, the finalization of documents for the 4-6 grade building will occur.

The board approved the Race to the Top application and budget for the fourth year.

Matt Hartley will be traveling to Charlotte, N.C. for transportation and fleet software training, June 30-July 3.

Tony Lyons, Beth Rosenkranz, Jeff Clark, and Kim Piper, will be attending the American School Counselors Association Conference in Philadelphia, Pa, June 30-July 3.

The TEACCH (Training, Expanding, Appreciating, Collaborating, Cooperating, Holistic) Training, in Greensboro, N.C., will be attended by Brittny Sword, July 15-19. This program helps educators learn how to effectively teach multi-handicap students.

In the 2012-2013 Bullying Report for Piqua City Schools, 95 incidents were reported and of those reported, 13 followed the governmental definition of bullying. All cases were investigated thoroughly.

The board approved Warren Lodge No. 24 Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio to conduct the cornerstone laying ceremony, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, at 2 p.m., for the three new elementary schools.

An estimated $30,518.30 in donations was approved. Also, an estimated $1,638 in grants was

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Civic Band performs today

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PIQUA — The Piqua Civic Band begins its summer concert season with “Marches and More” at 7 p.m. today at Hance Pavilion with guest conductor, Brian McKibben.

Selections will include King Cotton, Music from Wicked, The Girl from Ipanema, The Birth of Rock and Roll, Highlights from Mary Poppins, America the Beautiful and much more.

George’s Dairy Bar has donated a gift certificate to be given away to one lucky audience member.

Bring the whole family for an evening of fun and music. The concert admission is free. Visit the band’s website at http://piquacivicband.weebly.com for more information or search for “The Piqua Civic Band” on Facebook.

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In the case involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by the court’s liberal justices.

“Under DOMA, samesex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways,” Kennedy said.

“DOMA’s principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them

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The city of Piqua weed cutter makes its way down the hydraulic canal on Wednesday afternoon. The cutter has been at work for about four weeks already this summer keeping the canal weed-free.

Suspect accused of robbery Homeowner walked in during crime

BY WILL E SANDERS Staff Writer wsanders@civitasmedia.com PIQUA — Authorities arrested a man accused of breaking into a detached garage in the 1500 block of Madison Avenue on Wednesday morning just before the homeowner walked in on the crime.

Anthony Bergman, the victim of the robbery, said he took the day off from work and when he went to go inside his detached garage, located in the 1500 block of Madison Avenue, he caught the suspect red-handed.

“We fought for awhile in the garage … and he got away from me,” Bergman said. “I tackled him in he front yard as my wife called the police.”

The suspect, Jacob S. Schiessler, managed to escape again and fled from the scene, but Bergman said he followed the suspect through backyards and even received aid from a city res-

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Piqua police officer Jerry Fogt leads Jacob S. Schiessler, 25, to a cruiser following his arrest in the 1600 block of Nicklin Avenue on Wednesday morning. ident who was working in his yard at the time of the incident.

Eventually, Bergman and the other bystander cornered Schiessler until police arrived and made the arrest about 10 minutes later in the 1600 block of Nicklin Avenue.

Schiessler, 25, of Piqua and formerly of Troy, was apprehended by authorities a few blocks away from the crime in the area of the 1600 block of Nicklin Avenue.

Schiessler was incarcerated at the Miami County Jail on the felony charges of robbery and

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Obituaries

Stephanie Ann Applegate VERSAILLES — Stephanie Ann Applegate, 48, of Versailles, died Wednesday, June 26, 2013, surrounded by her family at home. She was born Feb, 13, 1965, in Miami County to Dale Eldon and Julia Ann (Young) Kline.

She was a graduate of Covington High School, Class of 1983, and worked at Versailles Health Care Center.

She was preceded in death by her father, Dale Kline; and maternal grandmother, Gladys Kline.

Stephanie is survived by her mother, Julia Ann Kline of Covington; son, Benjamin Douglas Lyons of Covington; daughter, Betsy A. (Lyons) Bixler of Covington; two grandchildren, Michael and

Dorothy Irene Westfall Hissong Ferguson

Mydalis Bixler; two brothers and sisters-inlaw, Dale and Paula Kline of Pleasant Hill and Michael and Phyllis Kline of Middleburg, Fla.; sister, Lori Houser of Piqua; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Funeral Service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, at Bridges-StockerFraley Funeral Home, Covington with Pastor Phil Elmore officiating.

The family will receive friends Saturday from 11 a.m. until the time of service. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to State of the Heart Hospice, Jon Dugan Infusion Cancer Center or UVMC - Cancer Care. Condolences may be left for the family at www.stockerfraley.com.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Dorothy Irene Westfall Hissong Ferguson, 97, of Louisville, Ky., passed away Monday, June 24, 2013.

She was born in Bradford, to the late Fred E. and Opal Hunt Westfall.

She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church in Tipp City.

Preceding her in death, other than her parents, were her two husbands, Elvin Hissong and Van Ferguson; and sisters, Gladys Thomas, Pauline Canan and Mary Bell Brown.

Survivors include her daughters, Joann Penrod, Karolyn Simons (Jim) and Joyce Reed (Cliff); her

step-son, Michael Ferguson (Chris); 14 grandchild r e n ; 3 3 great-grandchildren and 11 great-greatgrandchildren, as well as a sister, Betty Meyer (Ray).

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, at the First Baptist Church in Tipp City, with Pastor Gary Boggs officiating. Burial will be in Harris Creek Cemetery, Bradford, OH. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Friday at Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 327 W. Main St., Tipp City.

Memorial gifts may be sent to the First Baptist Church in Tipp City in her memory.

Newbright from her position as English teacher at PHS, and Patricia Clark from her position as Spanish teacher at PHS. The following educators have been approved for administrative contracts: Jake Amlin- Intermediate Principal, Teresa Anderson-Primary Principal, Melinda Gearhardt-Primary Principal, and Terri Meyer-Food Service Supervisor. These contracts are effective for the 20132014, 2014-2015, 20152016, school years.

Erich Heidenreich will replace Jim Conley, as the

Director of Technology for the 2013-2014, 2014-2015, school years. Jim Conley has retired.

Other replacement positions that have been filled are Nell Petry as gifted coordinator for the 2013-2014 school year, Alexa Wray as 8th grade math teacher at PJHS for the 2013-2013 school year, and Ryan Huwer as 7th grade math teacher at PJHS for the 2013-2014 school year.

The board approved 18 individuals as volunteers for the 2012-2013 school year.

During the Hearing of the Public Non-Agenda Items, a former PCS teacher communicated to the board questions regarding the recent reassignment of teachers.

Superintendent Rick Haines said he felt confident that the board is making the appropriate adjustments to effectively run each school in accordance with state guidelines.

The next scheduled board meeting is 7 p.m.

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In other news, the following resignations have been approved; Jeffrey Price from his position as treasurer of Piqua City Schools effective Aug. 1, David Palmer from his position as Athletic Director effective June 30, Rob Dickerson from his position as business teacher at PHS, Danielle Deiters from her position as 8th grade math teacher at PJHS, Craig Lindsey from his position as math teacher at PHS, Theresa

High-speed chase ends in arrest STAFF REPORT MIAMI COUNTY — Authorities were led on a high-speed chase through several counties before troopers deployed stop sticks to end the pursuit.

Suspect Zachary Titus, 29, was arrested by the Ohio State Patrol after

passing through Clark, Montgomery and Miami counties at speeds reaching 100 miles per hour, according to reports.

Other units were called in the pursuit that occurred near and on I-75 in Troy, said Lt. Mike Whaley. Northbound I-75 was

closed briefly during the chase.

Troopers took Titus into custody on I-75 near County Road 25-A. According to reports, troopers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, deputies from Clark, Montgomery and Miami

counties and officers from the Vandalia And Troy police departments were involved in the chase. No injuries were reported.

Authorities did not comment on why he was being chased. Titus is being incarcerated outside the county.

Grenade safely detonated on Peters Road

BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@civitasmedia.com TROY — A grenade was found at 6570 Peters Road in an outbuilding on the five-acre property, after authorities received a call around noon Wednesday.

Deborah Hamilton, a niece of the deceased property owner, was cleaning out the house and discovered a grenade in a small shed, said Deputy Brian Peoples of the Miami

County Sheriff’s Office.

“Typically with grenades, ones that are fake have a hole at the bottom to release gunpowder inside. This one did not have a hole in it, which made us believe it was possibly real,” Peoples said.

Hamilton’s uncle was a veteran of World War II and had kept it as a souvenir through the years, he added.

“She remembered see-

ing it when she was little but wasn’t sure if it was real or not,” Peoples said.

“She contacted the bomb squad, which said it appeared to be real. They went ahead and detonated it in the backyard, just to be safe.”

With the property situated on several acres, the bomb squad dug a hole and safely detonated the grenade in the vicinity.

Emergency crews were called as a precaution.

The discovery of a grenade or other World War II weapon is somewhat unusual, albeit not entirely common, Peoples said.

“It does happen, but not that often,” Peoples stated.

“Sometimes people collect war memorabilia for their families and grandparents, and it goes missing for several years. Then somebody finds it and doesn’t know what to do with it.”

It’s complicated: Lots to sort out on gay marriage

BY NANCY BENAC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two landmark Supreme Court rulings that bolster gay marriage rights don’t remove all barriers to same-sex unions by a long shot. Where gay couples live still will have a lot to do with how they’re treated.

Some questions and answers about Wednesday’s court rulings: Q: Can you boil down these two big rulings 104 pages in all to the basics?

A: In one case, the court said legally married gay couples are entitled to the same federal benefits available to straight couples. In the other, it cleared the way for gay marriages to resume in California, where voters banned them in 2008.

Q: What type of benefits are we talking about?

A: More than you’d expect. There are more than 1,000 federal laws in which marital status matters, covering everything from income and inheritance taxes to health benefits and pensions. In states where gay marriage is legal, same-sex couples

may actually be looking forward to filing their income taxes next April married, filing jointly.

Q. Why does it matter where a gay couple lives?

A: Even with Wednesday’s ruling, where legally married gay couples live still may affect the federal benefits they can obtain, at least for now. Social Security survivor benefits, for example, depend on where a couple is living when a spouse dies. If that happens in a state that bans or does not recognize the union, it’s not for sure that the surviving spouse will be entitled to the payments. Immigration law, meanwhile, only looks at where people were married, not where they live.

It’s complicated.

Q: What does the U.S. marriage map look like right now?

A: It’s a patchwork.

Same-sex marriage is legal in 12 states and the District of Columbia representing 18 percent of the U.S. population. When gay marriage resumes in California, the figure will jump to 30 percent.

Twenty-nine other states have constitutional amendments that ban gay

marriage. Six states have laws that ban it. Two states neither allow gay marriage nor ban it.

Q: How many same-sex couples in the U.S. have been legally married?

A: The numbers are squishy. The Pew Research Center estimates there have been at least 71,000 legal marriages since 2004, when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize them, but says there are almost certainly more. The Williams Institute, a UCLA-based think tank, says approximately 114,000 couples are legally married and more than 108,000 are in civil unions or registered domestic partnerships. In California alone, 18,000 same-sex couples were married during the 142day period when gay unions were legal there in 2008.

Q: What’s all this talk about DOMA? A: DOMA is the federal Defense of Marriage Act, enacted in 1996. The court on Wednesday struck down a section of that law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman for purposes of federal law. That’s what

had denied legally married gay couples access to a host of federal benefits and programs that are available to straight couples.

Q: Why all of the focus Wednesday on California?

A: The second case that the court addressed related to a 2008 state ballot proposition that added a ban on gay marriage to the California Constitution. The court didn’t rule on the merits of that ballot proposal, but it left in place a trial court’s declaration that the proposition is unconstitutional. That means same-sex weddings could resume in California in about a month, although a federal appeals court there said it may continue to bar gay marriages even longer if proponents of Proposition 8 ask for a rehearing.

Q: What more could the Supreme Court have done?

A: Tons. It could have given gay Americans the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals.

Instead, it sidestepped the looming question of whether banning gay marriage is unconstitutional.

Mary Louise Burns TROY — Mary Louise Burns, 77, of Troy, passed away o n Tuesd a y June 2 5 , 2013.

S h e w a s born in S a n D i e g o , BURNS C a l i f. , to the late Commander James Nelson, USN, and Mary Ethel (Dorsey) Nelson.

She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Myron Burns of Troy. She is also survived by her daughters and sons-inlaw, Kathy Burns and Terry McGowan of Jackson Center, Bev and Dave Thacker of Tipp City and her granddaughter, April (Ali) Locklan of Scotland.

In addition to her par-

ents, Louise was preceded in death by her brother, Bruce Nelson and her son, Doug Burns.

Louise was a member of First Baptist Church in Troy. Her hobbies were reading, sewing and crafts. She enjoyed spending time with friends and family and she will be missed by many.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday at Baird Funeral Home in Troy with Pastor Doug Magin officiating. Interment will follow in Forest Hills Memorial Gardens Vandalia. Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Friday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church, 53 S. Norwich Road, Troy, OH 45373.

Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

Robbery Continued from page 1 10:30 a.m., on reports of someone looking in windows and walking through yards.

Grove said the description of the man described in those two earlier instances matched the description of Schiessler.

“The homeowner … was able to keep the suspect in sight until police arrived and (the suspect) was taken into custody,”

Grove said.

Bergman said he realizes he could have been injured for confronting Schiessler, but said it’s time for residents to take back their community.

“That’s the only way this will stop,” he said. “If they keep getting caught, that’s how it’s going to stop. … My hat’s off to the police, they did a fantastic job as far as their response time and how they handled it.”

Marriage Continued from page 1 unequal,” he said.

Some in the crowd outside the court hugged and others jumped up and down just after 10 a.m.

EDT Wednesday when the DOMA decision was announced. Many people were on their cell phones monitoring Twitter, news sites and blogs for word of the decision. And there were cheers as runners came down the steps with the decision in hand and turned them over to reporters who quickly flipped through the decisions.

Chants of “Thank you” and “USA” came from the crowd as plaintiffs in the cases descended the court’s marbled steps.

Most of those in the crowd appeared to support gay marriage, although there was at least one man who held a sign promoting marriage as between a man and a woman.

Kennedy was joined in the DOMA decision by the court’s four liberal justices.

Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, and Scalia dissented.

Same-sex marriage has been adopted by 12 states and the District of Columbia. Another 18,000 couples were married in California during a brief period when same-sex unions were legal there.

The outcome is clear for people who were married and live in states that allow same-sex marriage.

They now are eligible for federal benefits.

The picture is more complicated for same-sex couples who traveled to another state to get married, or who have moved from a gay marriage state since being wed.

Their eligibility depends on the benefits they are seeking. For instance, immigration law focuses on where people were married, not where they live. But eligibility for Social Security survivor benefits basically depends on where a couple is living when a spouse dies.

The rulings came 10 years to the day after the court’s Lawrence v. Texas

decision that struck down state bans on gay sex. In his dissent at the time, Scalia predicted the ruling would lead to samesex marriage.

Massachusetts was the first state to allow gay couples to marry, in 2004.

When same-sex unions resume in California, there will be 13 states representing 30 percent of the U.S. population where gay marriage is legal.

The other 11 are Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

Outside the court, gay marriage proponents celebrated both wins.

May the marriages begin,” said the Human Rights Campaign’s Chad Griffin, who helped spearhead the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8. The two same-sex couples who sued for the right to marry also were at the court Wednesday.

In New York City’s Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn, where a riot in 1969 sparked the gay rights movement, erupted in cheers and whooping.

Mary Jo Kennedy, 58 was there with her wife Jo-Ann Shain, 60, and their daughter Aliya Shain, 25.

She came with a sign that could be flipped either way and was holding up the side that says “SCOTUS made our family legal”.

They have been together 31 years and got married day it became legal in New York.

The broadest possible ruling would have given gay Americans the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals.

The justices said nothing on that topic in either case.

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MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Safety Council hosted a Safety Fair this month with Ohio senator Bill Beagle (RTipp City) as the keynote speaker. Prior to his address to the group, Sen. Beagle read and presented a proclamation honoring the Miami County Safety Council for “Exemplary Achievement” on receiving honorable mention for the Safety Council of the Year Award from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation.

He went on to read, “This prestigious distinction is a fitting tribute to the Miami County Safety Council, for it has attained a remarkable record of service to the area. Over the years, the council has striven to promote safety awareness in the workplace, provide safety workshops and seminars, and increase its membership, and these accomplishments are a justifiable source of pride and outstanding reflection not only on the organization itself but also on its hard-working staff and volunteers, on its members and on the community.”

The Safety Fair event offered two education tracks, one for Human Resource and the other for

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Ohio Sen. Bill Beagle, far left, honors the Miami County Safety Council for receiving an honorable mention for the Safety Council of the Year Award from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation. Pictured with Beagle are members of the council's safety steering committee, left to right: Liz Sonnanstine, Tipp City Chamber of Commerce; Tammy Christian, Upper Valley Medical Center; Kathy Sherman, Piqua Chamber of Commerce; Don Brown, Hartzell Air Movement; Sue Davidson, Industry Products; Marcy Mikolajewski, Piqua Chamber of Commerce; Mayme Larson, SEW-Eurodrive; Jim Kinninger, Regal Beloit; Ray Harris, Special Waste Systems and Bob Heater, Safety-4-U. Safety & Health. Participants could choose two of four different training sessions.

The HR classes included: “OSHA On-Site Consultation Program Be Proactive Not Reactive,” taught by David Ellcessor of the BWC and “Workplace Emergencies Having a Plan” moderated

by Bob Heater of Safety-4U with Piqua Police Chief Bruce Jamison and Piqua Fire Chief Mike Rindler.

The Safety/Health classes included: “Heat Stress Safety, “How to Work Safely When it is Hot,” taught by Craig Smith, BWC Safety Consultant and “Best Practices for Managing Your Waste and the Mistakes That Can be Made,” presented by Ray Harris president of Special Waste Systems Inc. The Safety Council meets the second Thursday of each month at A

Learning Place in Piqua for Safety, Health, and HR training. Membership is $137 a year, which includes the lunches. The fiscal year for Safety Council runs from July 1June 30 and new members are being accepted now. To join, contact the Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce or go on line for an enrollment form at piquaareachamber.com and click on Safety Council.

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Wyatt Owen Baker Age: 10 Birthday: June 26, 2003 Parents: Matthew and Kari Baker Grandparents: Thom and Marsha Baker and Beverly Mumford Great-grandparents: Lou and MaryLou Havenar WYATT OWEN BAKER

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The Piqua-Lewis Boyer Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) recently met at the Troy YMCA for a program with Terry Purke and also to install new officers for 2013-2016. Past Regent Becky Miller installed the 2013-2016 term of officers, which include left to right, Debbie Miller, regent; Bonnie Lair, first vice regent; Kathy Thompson, second vice regent; Shannon Shafer, chaplain; Lora Larck, recording secretary; Susan Miracle (not present), corresponding secretary; Marianne Ober, treasurer; Nancy Kelsey, assistant treasurer; Teri Okrutny, registrar; Annette Stewart (not present), historian; Elizabeth Okrutny (not present), librarian.

UVMC wins award for volunteerism

TROY — During Labor Day weekend, Troy will host the “Gentlemen of the Road Stopover,” a music festival headlined by the world-renowned, Grammy award-winning band, Mumford and Sons.

This event will feature dozens of music performances and welcome thousands of guests to camp along the Great Miami River levee and in adjacent park spaces.

Troy Main Street is seeking organizations — either corporate or nonprofit— to form teams of volunteers. Groups need to number more than 10 people with one person to serve as the volunteer “team captain” (designated contact for the group).

Non-profit volunteer groups will be financially compensated in the form of a donation; corporate teams can earn a donation to the non-profit organization of their choosing Troy Main Street is now actively recruiting groups only. Individuals who are not affiliated with a group

and inquire about volunteering will be placed on a contact waiting list for potential later inclusion in a group.

Jobs include, but are not limited to: set-up; information and phone support; admission gate staffing; parking attendance; ageverification ID checks; beverage vending (including beer); ice delivery; campground and crowd monitoring; and clean-up.

Some tasks associated with set-up will begin the weekend of Aug. 24-25, and continue throughout the week leading up to the festival. Activities requiring as many as 200 workers per shift begin Thursday, Aug. 29, and continue through late night Saturday, Aug. 31.

Parties interested in group volunteering should identify one individual willing to serve as the “team captain” and contact us per the information listed above.

Also, search for “Troy Stopover Volunteers” on Facebook.

In Brief Tippecanoe band plays Sunday PIQUA — The Tippecanoe Community Band will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday at Hance Pavilion in Fountain Park. Features will include pops-style music by PROVIDED PHOTOS American composers. The director is Gail Ahmed.

Left, UVMC volunteer Joyce Carpenter works in the hospital gift shop. Right, volunteer Henry Schlatter pre- Band members are from Miami, Shelby and Montpares a bed for next patient. gomery counties.

For more information, call 335-1178.

TROY — The services that volunteer spirit which Women’s Services. teer prefers to be serving provided by Upper Valley makes our community a Robin Fisher, manager, on the front lines in a more Medical Center volunteers great place to live,” Sabra Volunteer Services, said visible role or behind the are no secret to the UVMC Johnson of the chamber staff works hard to match scenes, all volunteers are family. The word is out wrote in the award letter. volunteers to a role that an extension of our emacross the community as UVMC has 160 volun- allows them to find their ployees and are vital to well with the hospital’s teers in an array of areas time at UVMC fulfilling. UVMC and our ability to volunteer program se- including cancer care, car“While each of our vol- accomplish the tasks we lected for the 2013 Com- diac rehab, ED, fundrais- unteer (roles) requires a perform.” munity Service Award for ers, gift shop, information little different background, Organizations by the Troy desk, imaging, patient the primary qualification Area Chamber of Com- transport/escort, pet ther- is having a friendly, promerce. apy, pharmacy, rehab, spe- fessional demeanor with The award was pre- cial projects, storeroom, willing hands,” Fisher sented June 21 during the surgical waiting room and said. “Whether the volunintermission of the Cincinnati Pops Concert on The facts: 83% of hearing aid Dr. Daniel C. Harris, O.D. Prouty Plaza in downtown Troy. users felt their overall quality 1800 W. High St. • Piqua OH 45356 • 937-773-4441 Chamber officials said “Helping people see their very best.” of life changed for the better! those nominating the volunteers noted their work Protect Your Eyes From and dedication. “The work Piqua The Sun by the volunteers makes a 409 North Main St. Advanced testing for: (937) 630-4265 difference in the lives of - Macular Degeneration Your Prescription the patients, families and - Diabetic Eye Testing Sunglasses the many visitors to Upper Vandalia - Retinal Scans for Early Diagnosis of Eye Disease Valley Medical Center. It is 4 Skyview Dr.

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Let’s have the surveillance state debate O

ne diverting aspect of The Guardian-inspired hullaballoo over NSA surveillance has been watching people bicker about it on Facebook. In the old Soviet Union, people walked in the woods or hid in the bathroom with the faucets running to whisper forbidden thoughts.

Here in the USA, people post them online along with cute kitten videos and photos of Reuben sandwiches.

Recently, I advised my Facebook friend Theo Jordan how to conduct an intrigue without government spooks catching on.Have a third party buy a prepaid cellphone anonymously, use it no more than twice, and then hide it in the backseat of a NewYork taxi.The Feds will go nuts tracking it over five boroughs, while you get busy digging holes.

Theo, I should stipulate, is a dachshund with an active fantasy life. We’ve never actually met.

Meanwhile, some joker who hides behind the name of a character in a Henry James novel excoriates Democrats who haven’t joined the Edward Snowden-Glenn GreenwaldChicken Little Brigade. “Watching all the Obots turn into good Germans would be funny,” he writes, “if it weren’t so horrifying.”

Achtung, “Lambert.”

You and Theo can use fake identities on Facebook, but The Shadow knows. Privacy in the 18th-century sense vanished with the Internet, and it’s never coming back.It’s childish to think otherwise.

GENE LYONS Yesterday my wife Columnist dropped my binoculars, knocking them out of whack. Before I figured out how to fix them, I priced a new pair on Amazon. This morning, Facebook sent me an advert for Chinese-made Bushnells costing far less than the originals. By tomorrow, they’ll be back to selling me patent medicines somehow involving pretty women with preposterously large breasts. They don’t know that I suffer from maladies their “weird secrets” purport to cure, but they definitely know my age and gender.

MasterCard recently shut me down because their computer algorithm correctly deduced that a guy who spends most of his money buying cattle feed in Arkansas probably wasn’t buying a huge HDTV in Mexico City.Amazon knows that I’ve read all the Henning Mankell “Kurt Wallander” novels and thinks I may have a thing for Scandinavian murder mysteries.

OK, enough. Here’s the thing: The good news is that the most dramatic “revelations”in the Snowden-Greenwald stories turn out upon further review to be somewhere between greatly exaggerated and entirely false.

Yes,NSA vacuums up telephone“metadata”and sifts it for suspicious patterns.USAToday revealed that in 2006.There was a big political fight about it, which the libertarian side lost. But no, they aren’t listening to your calls, and when the histrionic Mr. Snowden says he could have eavesdropped on anybody in the USA, he leaves out that doing so would have landed him in Federal prison, where he probably belongs.

As the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin asks “What, one wonders, did Snowden think the NSA did? Any marginally attentive citizen, much less NSA employee or contractor, knows that the entire mission of the agency is to intercept electronic communications.”

Secondly,NSA has no direct“PRISM”link into the servers of Google,Yahoo, and the rest. Upon detecting suspicious activity, it must seek a search warrant, whereupon the companies isolate the information sought and deliver it to an electronic “lockbox” for collection. The Guardian simply got this wrong, and was very slow correcting itself, while Greenwald himself made characteristically shrill attacks on everybody who questioned it.

It’s thedifferencebetweenmeleaving,say,mytaxreturninthe mailboxandFBIagentscovertlyturningmyhomeandofficeupside down in my absence.Day and night,legally speaking.

Anyway,let’s think this through.The NewYorkTimes’ estimable James Risen was absolutely correct on “Meet the Press” when he said, “We haven’t had a full national debate about the creation of a massive surveillance state and surveillance infrastructure that if we had some radical change in our politics could lead to a police state.” [my italics] However, the genie won’t fit back in the bottle. Like nuclear weapons, computer technology is here to stay. What with al-Qaida posting articles on its website teaching freelance jihadists like the Tsarnaev brothers to “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom,” and Chinese hackers stealing industrial and military secrets by the truckload, unilateral electronic disarmament would be folly. An unmonitored Internet would be a conspiracist’s playground.

For once, Thomas Friedman may be right: All that might be necessary to provoke a fear-based authoritarian political response in the U.S. would be a couple of mass casualty terror strikes on the 9/11 scale.

So let’s definitely have that debate.Always mindful, however, of two things: First, the great enemy isn’t methodology but lawlessness. When J. Edgar Hoover targeted Martin Luther King,he used not NSA computers but tape recorders the size of electric typewriters.

Two, cyber warfare beats the other kind hands-down.

Commentary

Our liberties can survive Obama the media. More of the citirom back in our history, zenry are now finally valuing Ronald Reagan gave a the Bill of Rights (not only the very apposite warning Fourth Amendment) as parts to those of us insistent on proof their very being. I was tecting our self-governing reheartened to see in Glenn public: Greenwald’s column that: “Freedom is never more “U.S. polling data, by itself, than one generation away demonstrates how powerfully from extinction. We didn’t NAT HENTOFF these revelations have respass it to our children in the onated. Despite a sustained bloodstream. It must be Columnist demonization campaign fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one against him from official Washington, a day we will spend our sunset years telling Time magazine poll found that 54 percent our children and our children’s children of Americans believe Snowden did ‘a good what it was once like in the United States, thing,’ while only 30 percent disagreed.

That approval rating is higher than the one where men (and women) were free.”

While one generation is too soon for us to enjoyed by both Congress and President lose all of what distinguishes us from the Obama” (“Edward Snowden’s worst fear rest of the world, we are heading that way. has not been realized -- thankfully,” GreenThere is, however, an urgent awakening wald, guardian.co.uk, June 14).

Furthermore, Greenwald wrote that “on going on. I pay attention to people’s letters to the editor in all media I read, and there the more important issue -- the public’s have been more quotes like this one from views of the NSA surveillance programs ...

Rein Virkmaa, taken from the June 15 edi- a Gallup poll ... found that more Americans tion of the New York Post (owned by Rupert disapprove (53 percent) than approve (37 percent) of the two NSA spying programs Murdoch, no warrior for civil liberties): “If the only way to save our freedom is to revealed ... by The Guardian.”

Meanwhile, there is an extraordinary destroy it, then what is there left for the terrorists to do? We’ll have destroyed our- rumbling to expose and make accountable Obama’s gluttonous contempt for the Conselves.”

Also, consider the penetrating national - stitution’s separation of powers.The United - indeed, global -- impact of 30-year-old Ed- States is not yet a kingdom. But as Daniel ward Snowden’s disclosures of the U.S. Ellsberg recently emphasized: “Congress government’s ceaseless, massive spying on has given the president virtually a free us.A former contractor for the National Se- hand in deciding what information they curity Agency, Snowden has “opened an un- will know as well as the public.

“I wouldn’t count on the current precedented window on the details of surveillance by the NSA, including (dig (Supreme) court with its current makeup this!) its compilation of logs of virtually all making the same ruling with the Pentagon telephone calls in the United States and its Papers.” (In 1971, Ellsberg startlingly recollection of emails of foreigners from the leased the Pentagon Papers and was put on major American Internet companies, in- trial for it because they revealed deep, dark cluding Google, Yahoo, Apple and Skype” secrets about the U.S. government’s conduct (“Leaker Charged With Violating Espi- of the Vietnam War. The Supreme Court onage Act,” Scott Shane, The New York later cleared Ellsberg in a historic freeTimes, June 22). (There are more than just speech decision.)

If We The People don’t take back our emails from foreigners from these Internet country, Ellsberg warned, “not only Obama sources.)

Why did he do it? Snowden -- now sup- but the people who come after him will ported by Glenn Greenwald (who broke the have powers that no previous president deeply clarifying story in The Guardian), had. Abilities on surveillance that no counJohn Whitehead, Judge Andrew Napoli- try in the history of the world has ever had” tano, Daniel Ellsberg and this reporter -- (“Daniel Ellsberg: ‘I’m sure that President came to realize that We The People are con- Obama would have sought a life sentence stitutionally entitled to know who is steal- in my case,’” Timothy B. Lee, The Washington Post, June 5). ing our identities.

As for Snowden’s response to those citiSnowden, who was charged with criminality and violating the Espionage Act by zens who are passively part of “the new norBarack Obama, exclaimed in an online chat mal” and say, “I haven’t done anything on The Guardian’s website: “All I can say worth being tracked by any part of the govright now is the U.S. government is not ernment”: “Remember that just because you are not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it can- the target of a surveillance program does not make it okay.” not be stopped.”

Snowden is now looking for defense atAnd when he said,“This country is worth dying for,” he reminded me of my father, an torneys to deal with charges of violating the immigrant who was gassed brutally and re- Espionage Act. But I should also add that, peatedly during his Army service in World in avoiding U.S. arrest, he is, as of this writing, reportedly seeking refuge in Cuba, War I. He also felt that way.

Moreover, Snowden has defined himself Venezuela and Ecuador. These countries against Obama and his other critics: “I did are proudly part of the “anti-imperialist” not reveal any U.S. operations against le- Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our gitimate military targets. I pointed out America, or ALBA. (“U.S. warns countries where the NSA has hacked civilian infra- against Snowden travel,” James Pomfret structure, such as universities, hospitals and Lidia Kelly, reuters.com, June 23).

But are these countries home to the and private businesses because it is dangerous. These nakedly, aggressively crimi- kinds of self-governing citizens you prize, nal acts are wrong, no matter the target” Mr. Snowden? You may have brought light (“Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower an- to our constitutional separation of powers, swers reader questions,” guadian.co.uk, but you need to look more closely into new havens.

June 17).

This raises the question among more and Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned aumore Americans:When will Obama be held accountable -- under oath, with full due thority on the First Amendment and the Bill process -- for his criminal acts against us? of Rights. He is a member of the Reporters Snowden will not be intimidated, despite Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the the scalding attacks on him as a traitor in Cato Institute, where he is a senior fellow.

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When federal budget deficits finally began to shrink in early spring as recovery from the Great Recession advanced, economic growth started inching down — not up.

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It’s not just economic policy. Foreign policy under President Barack Obama also hit a few recent snags.

While in Europe, Obama reached out to Russia to negotiate new reductions in nuclear arsenals of both countries — and drew a quick rebuff from Moscow. Obama also welcomed a new initiative for peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban militants. But Afghan President Hamid Karzai renounced the formula the next day and refused to participate in the talks.

“We had anticipated that at the outset, there were going to be some areas of friction, to put it mildly, in getting this thing off the ground,” Obama said of the Taliban outreach.

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What did Narcissus say to Instagram? Selfie time!

Thursday, June 27, 2013

RV parked in driveway keeps boys busy, grandma worried DEAR ABBY: My husband has moved our motor home into our driveway and lets our 8-year-old grandson and the neighborhood boys play inside without supervision. I am furious about it because they can — and often do — mess up a whole lot of stuff, and worse, it leaves us open for a lawsuit if anyone gets hurt!

I can’t convince him that it’s not OK to let the boys play inside. Actually, I think he knows it, but our grandson only has to whine or cry and my husband folds. Can you help me get through to him? — CONCERNED GRANDMA IN TEXAS

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This Sept. 18, 2012 photo released by NASA shows international space station astronaut Aki Hoshide taking a self-portrait while in space. The practice of freezing and sharing our tiniest slices of life in “selfies� has become so popular that the granddaddy of dictionaries, the Oxford, is monitoring the term as a possible addition.

BY LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In these hyper-connected, over-shared times dwell two kinds of people: those preoccupied with taking and uploading photos of themselves and those who have never heard of the selfie.

The raunchy, goofy, poignant, sexy or drunken self-portrait has been a common sight since phone camera met social media.

Now, nearly a decade since the arm-extended or inthe-mirror photos became a mainstay of MySpace — duck face or otherwise — selfies are a pastime across generations and cultures.

Justin Bieber puts up plenty with his shirt off and Rihanna poses for sultry snaps, but a beaming Hillary Clinton recently took a turn with daughter Chelsea, who tweeted their happy first attempt with the hashtag #ProudDaughter.

Two other famous daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama, selfied at dad’s second inauguration, pulling faces in front of a smartphone. And Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide earned a spot in the Selfie Hall of Fame with a striking, other-worldly shot, arms extended as reflected in his helmet outside the International Space Station last year. “It just comes so naturally after a point,� said Elizabeth Zamora, a 24year-old marketing account coordinator in Dallas who has taken hundreds of selfies since she got her first iPhone two years ago, with the frontfacing camera that has become the selfie gold standard. “You just take it and you don’t even realize it and then you’re sharing it with all your friends,� she said. “I try not to go crazy.�

If we’re not taking them, we’re certainly looking, regardless of whether we know what they’re

called. We’re lurking on the selfies of our teens, enjoying the hijinx of coworkers and friends and mooning over celebrities, who have fast learned the marketing value — and scandalous dangers — of capturing their more intimate, unpolished selves.

The practice of freezing and sharing our thinnest slices of life has become so popular that the granddaddy of dictionaries, the Oxford, is monitoring the term selfie as a possible addition. Time magazine included the selfie in its Top 10 buzzwords of 2012 (at No. 9) and New York magazine’s The Cut blog declared in April: “Ugly Is the New Pretty: How Unattractive Selfies Took Over the Internet.�

On Instagram alone, there’s #selfiesunday, along with related tags where millions of selfies land daily. More than 23 million photos have been uploaded to the app with the tag #selfie and about 70 million photos clog Instagram’s #me.

What are we to make of all this navel-gazing (sometimes literally)? Are selfies, by definition, culturally dangerous? Offensive? An indicator of moral decline?

Beverly Hills, Calif., psychiatrist Carole Lieberman sees narcissism with a capital N. “The rise of the selfie is a perfect metaphor for our increasingly narcissistic culture. We’re desperately crying out: Look at me!�

But Pamela Rutledge doesn’t see it that way. The director of the nonprofit Media Psychology Research Center, which explores how humans interact with technology, sees the selfie as democratizing the once-snooty practice of self-portraiture, a tradition that long predates Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.

She sees some key differences between selfies and self-portraits of yore.

Unlike painted portraiture, selfies are easily

deletable. And “bad or funny is good in a way that wasn’t the case when people had to pay for film to be developed,� or for a professional painter, she said. “Albrecht Durer’s selfportraiture is these incredible self-reflections and explorations of technique, and then when Rihanna snaps her picture it’s just self-aggrandizement, or it’s promotion, so you have a fairly interesting double standard based upon who’s taking the selfportrait,� said Rutledge, in Boston.

In selfies, we can be famous and in control of our own images and storylines. As for the young, the more authority figures — parents, teachers — dislike them and “declare them a sign of a self-obsessed, narcissistic generation, the more desirable they become,� she said.

The word selfie in itself carries multiple connotations, Rutledge observes. “The ‘ie’ at the end makes selfie a diminutive, implying some affection and familiarity.�

From a semantic’s perspective, the selfie is a “little’ self� — a small, friendly bit of the self, she said.

There’s a sense of immediacy and temporariness. “Granted, little is really temporary on the Internet, but it is more that by definition. Transient, soon to be upstaged by the next one,� Rutledge said.

Self-portraits tagged as ‘selfie’ first surfaced on Flickr, a photo-sharing site, and on MySpace in 2004, Rutledge said. The earliest reference in UrbanDictionary was to “selfy� in 2005.

In historical terms, elites in Ancient Egypt were fond of self-portraits, Rutledge said. And then there was the mirror, invented in the 15th century and allowing artists like the prolific Durer in Germany to have at it in more meaningful detail.

While the self-involved Narcissus stared at his re-

flection in a pond in Greek mythology, it was the mirror that “really was the first piece of technology where an artist could see his own image long enough to paint it, other than just painting self-impressions,� Rutledge said.

Fast forward to the 1860s and the advent of cameras, launching a new round of selfies, though they took considerable skill and expense.

Leap with us once again to 2010 and the launch of Instagram, and on to 2012, when 86 percent of the U.S. population had a cell phone, bringing on the cheaper selfie as social media and mobile Internet access spread. “What’s most interesting to me is how we’re trying to grapple with what it means,� Rutledge said. “We know what it means when we see somebody’s picture of their kid holding a soccer ball. We’re OK with that. And we know what it means to have a portrait in a high school yearbook or of a real estate agent on a business card. We know how to think about all of those things, but we don’t know how to think about this mass production of self-reflection.�

Is it possible the selfie doesn’t mean anything at all? “In the era of the Kardashians, everyone has become their own paparazzi,� mused Rachel Weingarten, a personalbrand consultant in New York.

Another New Yorker, 14-year-old Beatrice Landau, tends to agree. She regularly uploads selfies, from vacation shots on Instagram to fleeting images using Snapchat, a phone app that deletes them after 10 seconds. “I know selfies are ridiculous, but it’s definitely part of our ‘teenage culture,’� Beatrice said. “You don’t have to have a person with you to take a picture of you, when you can take one yourself.�

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Advice After I printed the letter from “Can’t Believe It Down South� (May 13), about the grandfather who is insisting that his granddaughter’s Greek fiance change his last name “because it is too long and impossible to pronounce,�

I loved what you had to say. Some of your comments made me laugh, so I’m sharing them with you:

DEAR CONCERNED GRANDMA: I probably can’t do much better than you, but I’m willing to bet that your family lawyer and your insurance agent can. Notify them about DEAR ABBY: I saw what’s going on, and let them tell your husband the letter from “Can’t Bewhat the consequences lieve It,� and I have just will be if anything unfore- the response for him: “Dear Grandpa: Don’t seen should happen. worry. With the wedding DEAR ABBY: I have eight weeks away, you will started working at a cafe. have plenty of time to My best friend works learn to say ‘Mrs. Papathere, and she helped me georgiou.’ “By the way, we have get the job. I work with decided on the reception her often, and when I ask menu: spanakotyropita, questions, she keeps doing and stuff for me and won’t let tsipouradika all me learn. I have to learn kolokythoanthoi, washed down with by doing.

When I go home, I feel ouzomezedhes.� — GET YOUR OWN like I’m not good at it, and NAME I start missing my coworkers from my old job. I DEAR ABBY: Many miss my old work because we had so much fun and years ago, my cousin was a rabid Burt Reynolds fan. always goofed around.

I don’t know how to Her friend, a flight attenenjoy my new job, and I dant, was on the same get all quiet around my plane as Burt, so she friend because she obvi- asked him for an autoously realizes when I’m graphed photo for my not doing something right. cousin. Burt spelled her How do I keep up a good name wrong, and when attitude or tell her she’s my cousin saw it, she said, “Oh, well. I don’t mind driving me crazy? — SAD GIRL IN changing the spelling for UTAH HIM!� — “ABBDICT� IN GERMANY DEAR SAD GIRL: A way to change your attiDEAR ABBY: Dang! tude would be to stop asking your friend to coach That granddad sure is a you. People have different pain in the Acropolis. — GENE OF learning styles. Obviously, AQUITAINE yours is not the same as your friend’s. The person Dear Abby is written by who should be teaching Abigail Van Buren, also you is your boss. Because new routines take practice known as Jeanne Phillips, to master, have him or her and was founded by her show you the ropes so you mother, Pauline Phillips. can mirror what that per- Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or son is doing.

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If West’s jack holds the trick, the contest is over because he is forced to return a heart and thereby relieve declarer of the guess in that suit. So let’s assume East overtakes the jack with the king and continues with the ten. South ruffs and must now decide which way to take the heart finesse.

Despite East’s alert defense, South’s sequence of plays has yielded enough information to assure success.

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Israeli wall in ‘World War Z’ sparks questions

BY JAKE COYLE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brad Pitt’s“WorldWar Z”imagines a world overrun by a zombie pandemic, leading to an unlikely new global power structure. Two of the few countries that have kept the zombies at bay are Israel, which shelters Israelis and Palestinians behind a wall, and North Korea, which has removed the teeth of its citizens to prevent zombie biting.

It’s a curious portrait of geopolitics that’s left some moviegoers scratching their heads. Is a wall of unity for both Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem an ironic commentary on the West Bank barrier being constructed by Israel alongside Palestine?

Or a suggestion that a wall — which resembles the Western Wall — can be a positive force in the Middle East?

There’s little time for rumination on such questions in “World War Z” before the next swarm of zombies attacks. Any whiff of foreign policy contemplation is snuffed out by the stampeding undead, who seem about as interested in politics as the average summer moviegoer.

But in their wake, some have questioned just what, exactly,“WorldWar Z,”is saying about Israel.

“Will (foreign moviegoers)

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This publicity image released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from “World War Z.”The zombies in “World War Z” move with Carl Lewis speed and a swarmlike mentality inspired in part by rabid dogs, furthering the eternal fan debate over whether the walking dead should actually run. conclude that the filmmakers (are) saying that Kim Jong-un and Benjamin Netanyahu are the wisest leaders in the world, except that Kim is a little bit wiser, because he’s uncontaminated by humanitarian sentiments?” wrote Hendrik Hertzberg for The New Yorker. “North Koreans still have a few teeth in their heads, but Israel has already built a wall. Will foreign audiences, or potential audiences, interpret the film’s message to be that the only thing wrong with the exist-

its provocative hypothesizing of various nations’ handling of a worldwide epidemic, the need for a more linear narrative soon took precedence.

After many rewrites over the course of years, much of the book was whittled away, eventually producing a film (the ending to which was reshot) with only cursory relation to the novel. Whereas the book deals centrally with geopolitical allegory, pieced together from multiple perspectives, the film is limited to the narrow viewpoint of one United Nations inspector (Pitt) trying to make sense of the catastrophe as its happening.

“It got too dense,”Pitt,also a producer, said in an interview last week.“We got too weighed down on it. We spent a couple years on it. We couldn’t get it intoonemovie.Wehadtowalk alinebetweenusingthefilmas aTrojan horse for some of that, butthesethingshavetobefun.

Andwewerebored,ourselves.”

In the book, uninfected Jews and Palestinians are quarantined behind a huge wall in Jerusalem.The haven is spoiled not by zombies, but by civil war,which breaks out when Israel’s ultra-orthodox rebel. In the film, the Jerusalem scene (shot in Malta) is the film’s grandest set piece (seen widely in TV ads) where zombies mount the wall like ants.

The use of such regionally sensitive imagery will likely

ing wall is that it’s not sealed tight enough?”

The Los Angeles Times’ Steven Zeitchik wrote: “In the context of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, a wall is a heavily fraught symbol.

But here it turns into an instrument of peace?”

Any murkiness is partly the result of the tortured, rewritten path to movie theaters taken by“WorldWar Z,” which opened last weekend in North America with a higher than expected $66.4 million at the box office and plans for a sequel.

The film is loosely based on Max Brooks’ 2006 novel “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.” Modeled on Studs Terkel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The GoodWar:An Oral History of World War II,” Brooks’ book is a collection of dispatches from around the globe years after a zombie outbreak.

Pitt’s production company, Plan B, pursued the rights aggressively, winning them for $1 million over competing bidder Leonardo DiCaprio.

But though Pitt was initially attracted to“WorldWar Z”for

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be hotly debated when it opens in Israel on July 11.

Brooks, who’s the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, declined to be interviewed for this article. He’s previously distanced himself from the movie. In a video posted by Pennsylvania’s Mansfield University in May, Brooks said the movie is “WorldWar Z”‘’in name only.”

Pitt’s UN inspector isn’t a character in the book, and Brooks reportedly requested that his publisher, Random House,not print new editions of the book with Pitt’s face on the cover.

A sequel to the film may follow, which could give the producers a chance to delve deeper into the book’s ideas.

Moving forward a few years would also sync up chronologically with the novel.

One of the most notable changes to the geopolitics of “World War Z,” though, dealt with another part of the world.

In the book, the outbreak begins in China, but the movie vaguely sources it to other parts of Asia. Faithfulness to the book in this instance, would have almost certainly kept the Paramount release out of the lucrative Chinese movie market,which is carefully restricted by the government.

Even when zombies run amok,box-office interests are carefully protected.

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PIQUA — The Madison Avenue Church of God will host a group of singers from the Greenville Church of Free fermenting veggie God at 7 p.m. Saturday. The group will Three Blitz seminar preach the gospel through song, with events slated PIQUA — Piqua Church of the their dress as well as their music deTIPP CITY — This Nazarene, 400 S. Sunset Dr., will host a picting the old older period.

The performance will begin at 7 p.m. summer, Ginghamsburg free fermenting vegetable seminar for at the church, 922 Madison Ave., Piqua.

Church hosts three Blitz events for kids in grade 35 from 6:30-9 p.m. August 16 in the Tipp City Campus Ave., 6759 S. County Road 25-A. Kids play inside on giant inflatables, dance, play basketball and hang out with friends in a safe, chaperoned space. Cost is $5 per child and includes snacks and all activities. Candy is available for separate purchase, and a parent or responsible adult must check in and pick up each child. For more information, please contact Emilee Hermon, Children’s Ministry Coordinator at (937) 667-1069 ext. 280, or ehermon@ginghamsburg.org

Recovery meeting slated SIDNEY — The Sidney First Church of the Nazarene will host a Celebrate Recovery (CR) meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays. CR is a recovery program to help people deal with hurt, habit or hang-up, including from divorce, rejection or betrayal. Habits may include gambling, drugs, pornography or alcohol. Hang-ups may include depression, negativity or anger.

The program is open to anyone age 18 and above and is offered free of charge.

The CR program focuses on the future, not the past. Participants are encouraged to accept responsibility for their actions. Growth in the context of small groups is emphasized.

At CR meetings, music and messages all dealing with the various issues of recovery. The leaders of CR have numerous years experience in song leading and public speaking.

Those interested in more information on CR, may go crsidney.com or email questions to crsidney@yahoo.com.

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IN BRIEF ■ BASEBALL Indians and Orioles BALTIMORE — Cleveland’s Justin Masterson (9-5) and Baltimore’s Chris Tillman (8-2), the two winningest pitchers on their respective teams, take the mound in the second game of a series between the Indians and Orioles. By David Ginsburg.

■ NFL CLEVELAND (AP) — Citing fatigue from travel, Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown cancelled a speaking engagement with some of the NFL’s rookies.

Brown had been scheduled to conduct a history lesson for AFC rookies on Wednesday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. However, the 77year-old former Cleveland Browns star issued a statement saying he is extremely tired and needs rest.

“I am very sorry that I am unable to attend tomorrow’s Hall of Fame session with the rookie class,” Brown said Tuesday in a statement released through the league.

“Our young NFL players are very dear to me, but due to my extensive travels of late, I am extremely tired and need to rest. I look forward to returning to Ohio this summer for all of the festivities as we celebrate 50 years of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.”

Fellow Hall of Famer Mike Haynes will replace Brown, who lives in Los Angeles.

The drafted NFC firstyear players will visit the hall on Saturday as part of the four-day Rookie Symposium and will take part in a session on league history with Chicago Bears great Richard Dent.

Brown was recently hired as a special adviser by the Browns, reconnecting with the team after several years. He was in Cleveland in May for a news conference with team owner Jimmy Haslam and said he was excited about the chance to help mentor some of the Browns’ younger players.

Brown is regarded as one of the best players in NFL history. He rushed for 12,312 yards and scored 106 touchdowns in nine seasons before retiring at the peak of his career — and after being named league MVP in 1965 — to pursue acting.

Brown still holds many of Cleveland’s team records. His No. 32 is retired. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971.

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A’s jump on Reds, Arroyo early and hold on

BY JANIE MCCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Bronson Arroyo had a pretty good thing going against the Oakland Athletics, at least before he was caught off guard and roughed up Tuesday night.

The A’s jumped on Arroyo early, ending his day after a season-low four innings in the Cincinnati Reds’ 7-3 loss to start this quick, two-game interleague matchup.

It was the shortest start for Arroyo (6-6) since three innings last July 16 against Arizona at home.

And the right-hander surrendered seven runs for the first time since allowing eight against the Indians on July 1, 2011, in Cincinnati. He gave up seven hits.

“They just had a great approach against me, to be honest with you.

I predicate my game on being able to play mental chess-matches with guys and beating them to the move first, and they beat me to the punch,” he said. “They had a nice approach. They did some things I didn’t expect them to do. I wasn’t that familiar with the lineup. Feeling like I was a bit pigeon-holed by not having a sharp enough breaking ball to beat anybody, including the righties, made it very difficult.”

Josh Donaldson hit a two-run homer, newly promoted Stephen Vogt hit a sacrifice fly for his first major league RBI as the A’s bounced back from a tough road trip.

Josh Reddick had an RBI double, Yoenis Cespedes added a runscoring single, and Brandon Moss also hit a sacrifice fly.

The Reds were greeted by fresh carpeting and other upgrades nine days after a sewage problem and flooding in the clubhouses and umpire room that sent the A’s and Mariners scrambling for the locker room of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders.

Joey Votto hit his 14th homer, and Cincinnati’s Derrick Robinson had a career-high four hits. Robinson has hit safely in six of his last seven games, going 9 for 26 (.341) during that stretch.

“I got some to fall in, got one to ricochet off the pitcher and I got a base hit bunt that I beat out,” Robinson said. “We had a couple times where we had bases loaded.

But it didn’t work out in our favor completely those times. You’ve just got to keep going.”

Votto homered leading off the fourth but the Reds missed too many other chances to back Arroyo. Cincinnati left 11 men on base and lost for the fourth time in six games.

“Tough game today,” manager Dusty Baker said. “We out-hit them and we left a lot of men on base.”

Baker, the former Giants manager who departed after his club fell just short in the 2002 World Series to the wild-card Angels, got back to his Sacramento-area home Monday and brought freshly picked fruit to the clubhouse. He planned to sleep at his other home in San Bruno on Tuesday night.

He will be ready for a fresh start Wednesday afternoon.

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Cincinnati Reds’ Joey Votto, right, is congratulated by teammates after hitting a home run off Oakland Athletics’ Tommy Milone in the fourth inning of a baseball game Tuesday in Oakland, Calif.

The Reds hit three straight deep flyballs to center in the first — each of which might have cleared the fences in Great American Ball Park.

A’s starter Tommy Milone walked the final three batters he faced, including Jay Bruce’s basesloaded free pass in the fifth. Manager Bob Melvin then turned to Pat Neshek (2-1), who struck out Chris Heisey to end the fifth.

While Melvin called it “difficult” removing Milone when he was so close to the five innings he needed for a win, the pitcher knew he was laboring.

“You could see it,” Milone said.

“I walked three guys in a row and walked a guy in. I don’t blame him for taking me out right there. It makes it easier when you’ve got the bullpen we do.”

The Reds left the bases loaded in the fifth and again an inning later when Votto flied out to end the sixth, then wasted chances again in the eighth.

Arroyo lost for only the second time in five June starts, having his two-start winning streak end.

He had beaten the A’s in his last three decisions over five starts since losing his first career appearance against Oakland 15-2 on May 27, 2004. Arroyo also had gone at least six innings with two or fewer earned runs in four straight starts — but missed doing so in five in a row for the first time since Aug. 24 to Sept. 14, 2009.

“I wasn’t surprised they swung early. I was surprised at some of the pitches they swung early on,” Arroyo said. “They flipped the ta-

bles on me. I usually pitch off the beaten path and they came at me with an approach that was a bit awkward.”

The Reds placed second baseman Brandon Phillips on the paternity list, and he will miss the team’s two-game series in Oakland before rejoining the club Friday at Texas.

Notes: Cincinnati hosts the A’s for two games Aug. 6-7. ... The Reds reinstated OF Heisey from the 15-day disabled list after a six-

game rehab assignment with Triple-A Louisville. He had been on the DL since April 29 with an injured right hamstring. ... Cincinnati also recalled INF Henry Rodriguez from Louisville for his second stint with Cincinnati this season, and optioned outfielder Donald Lutz to Double-A Pensacola. ... The Oakland Coliseum has had different ballpark names in each of Cincinnati’s last four trips to face the A’s. ... Ryan Hanigan is in an 0-for-12 slump.

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Cincinnati Reds’ Joey Votto reacts after taking a strike from Oakland Athletics’ Jerry Blevins in the sixth inning of a baseball game Tuesday in Oakland, Calif.

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Patriots player Hernandez charged with murder

BY MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press ATTLEBORO, Mass.

(AP) — New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested and charged Wednesday with murdering a friend a few days after they got into a dispute at a nightclub.

Hernandez was taken from his home in handcuffs Wednesday morning, more than a week after Boston semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd’s bulletriddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez’s home. Soon after his arrest, the Patriots announced they had cut Hernandez from the team.

Lloyd was a 27-year-old semi-pro football player for the Boston Bandits.

His relatives said he was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee, that the two men were friends and that the men were out together on the last night of Lloyd’s life. He was shot multiple times in the back and chest, authorities said.

Hernandez was charged with murder and weapons counts.

In court, prosecutors described a killing borne out of a dispute at a Boston nightclub on the night of June 14, but they didn’t say exactly what supposedly did to anger Hernandez.

Hernandez and two friends picked up Lloyd at home at 2:30 a.m. on June 17, Assistant District Attorney Bill McCauley said.

Surveillance footage from Hernandez’s home shows him leaving earlier with a gun, McCauley said. He also told someone in the

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In this image taken from video, police escort Aaron Hernandez from his home in handcuffs in Attleboro, Mass., on Wednesday. Hernandez was taken from his home more than a week after a Boston semi-pro football player was found dead in an industrial park a mile from Hernandez's house. house that he was upset and couldn’t trust anyone anymore, the prosecutor said.

After picking up Lloyd, Hernandez said he was upset with Lloyd because Lloyd had spoken with people Hernandez had trouble with during their outing to the nightclub, McCauley said.

After that conversation, Lloyd texted his sister, “Did you see who I am with,” the prosecutor said.

When his asked who, he answered at 3:22 a.m., “NFL,” then, a minute later, “Just so you know,” he said.

Between 3:23 a.m. and 3:27 a.m., people working the overnight shift at the industrial park reported hearing gunshots, Mc-

Cauley said.

It’s not clear who investigators believe fired the shots.

Hernandez’s attorney, Michael Fee, asked for bail, saying Hernandez is not a flight risk, is a homeowner and lives with his fiancee and an 8-monthold baby. He also said Hernandez had never been accused of a violent crime.

“It is at bottom a circumstantial case. It is not a strong case,” Fee said.

The judge ordered Hernandez held without bail pending further proceedings.

Hernandez was wearing a white V-neck T-shirt, with his arms inside the shirt and behind his back as he was led from his North Attleborough before

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New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez drives from his home on Thursday, June 20, in North Attleborough, Mass. Hernandez had a connection to homicide victim Odin Lloyd, of Boston, whose body was found in an industrial park near the athlete’s home. Family and officials were mum on the nature of their relationship after police visited Hernandez’ home.

9 a.m. Wednesday. He casually spit into some bushes on his way to a police cruiser.

Hernandez was taken from the North Attleborough police station to his court hearing Wednesday afternoon. About two dozen supporters cheered, some yelling “We love you Aaron,” as the car carrying him left the police station.

At about 10:20 a.m., the Patriots announced they had released Hernandez and expressed sympathy to Lloyd’s family and friends.

“Words cannot express the disappointment we feel knowing that one of our players was arrested as a result of this investigation,” the Patriots said in a statement. “We realize that law enforcement investigations into this matter are ongoing.

We support their efforts and respect the process.

At this time, we believe this transaction is simply the right thing to do.”

Lloyd’s mother, Ursula Ward, declined to comment at her Boston home Wednesday morning.

“Nothing to say, please. Thank you,” she said, before shutting the door.

State police have searched in and around Hernandez’s sprawling home in North Attleborough several times. At least three search warrants have been issued in connection with the investigation.

The Patriots drafted Hernandez, who is originally from Bristol, Conn., out of the University of Florida in 2010. Last summer, the team gave him a five-year contract worth $40 million.

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Friday, June 28, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Be patient with siblings, neighbors and daily contacts today, because others are sensitive and might take issue with something you say. (Not everyone is as bold in his or her speech as you are.)

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Squabbles about possessions or money might erupt today. Keep in mind that this is a brief influence, and if you are patient, it will just pass away and be forgotten.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Be patient in dealing with bosses, parents, teachers, VIPs and the police today. You might lose it while talking to an authority figure. (How smart would that be?)

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Avoid controversial subjects like politics, religion and racial issues today, because people are argumentative. In fact, some are just looking for an excuse to fight.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is a poor day to discuss issues regarding inheritances, shared property, taxes and debt, because people are too touchy. Postpone these discussions for the weekend or late next week.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Lighten up and be tolerant with partners and close friends. Why fight or squabble? Anger serves no purpose except to make everyone miserable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Remember your objective at work today. This means you will gain nothing by fighting with a co-worker. After all, you have to get along day after day, right?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Parents need to be patient with children today. Similarly, lovers need to be patient with romantic partners, because today it's easy to be irritated.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Avoid domestic squabbles by demonstrating grace under pressure. It takes only one in the family to promote good feelings, and that person can be you.

(Be a role model.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Rash actions or hasty words might get you in hot water today. Avoid airing your grievances with family members, because this is not the day to do it.

Mum's the word.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Think twice before you speak or do anything today, because your own feelings of irritation might trigger an accident. Lighten up and go with the flow.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Don't exaggerate your response to others or fall into victim mode today. (You know who you are.) Many people feel irritated and frustrated. And so it goes.

(But this is very brief. No biggie.)

YOU BORN TODAY You are witty and entertaining, in large measure, because you react to life with your emotions. You're all heart. When you want something, you go after it. You're a natural leader, and you like to be appreciated. You're likable because, in turn, you like people. Work hard to build and construct something in your year ahead, because your rewards soon follow.

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Marijuana’s march toward mainstream confounds feds

BY NANCY BENAC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness� to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just Say No.�

The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously “didn’t inhale,� to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did.

Now, in just a few short years, public opinion has moved so dramatically toward general acceptance that even those who champion legalization are surprised at how quickly attitudes are changing and states are moving to approve the drug for medical use and just for fun.

It is a moment in America that is rife with contradictions: People are looking more kindly on marijuana even as science reveals more about the drug’s potential dangers, particularly for young people.

States are giving the green light to the drug in direct defiance of a federal prohibition on its use.

Exploration of the potential medical benefit is limited by high federal hurdles to research.

Washington policymakers seem reluctant to deal with any of it.

Richard Bonnie, a University of Virginia law professor who worked for a national commission that recommended decriminalizing marijuana in 1972, sees the public taking a big leap from prohibition to a more laissezfaire approach without full deliberation. “It’s a remarkable story historically,� he says. “But as a matter of public policy, it’s a little worrisome.�

More than a little worrisome to those in the anti-drug movement. “We’re on this hundredmile-an-hour freight train to legalizing a third addictive substance,� says Kevin Sabet, a former drug policy adviser in the Obama administration, lumping marijuana with tobacco and alcohol.

Legalization strategist Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, likes the direction the marijuana smoke is wafting. But knows his side has considerable work yet to do. “I’m constantly reminding my allies that marijuana is not going to legalize itself,� he says. —— By the numbers: Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes since California voters made the first move in 1996. Voters in Colorado and Washington state took the next step last year and approved pot for recreational use.

Alaska is likely to vote on the same question in 2014, and a few other states are expected to put recreational use on the ballot in 2016.

Nearly half of adults have tried marijuana, 12 percent of them in the past year, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.

Fifty-two percent of adults favor legalizing marijuana, up 11 percentage points just since 2010, according to Pew. Sixty percent think Washington shouldn’t enforce federal laws against marijuana in states that have approved its use. —— Where California led the charge on medical marijuana, the next chapter in this story is being written in Colorado and Washington state.

Policymakers there are grappling with all sorts of sticky issues revolving around one central question: How do you legally

regulate the production, distribution, sale and use of marijuana for recreational purposes when federal law bans all of the above?

The Justice Department began reviewing the matter after last November’s election. But seven months later, states still are on their own.

Both sides in the debate paid close attention when Obama said in December that “it does not make sense, from a prioritization point of view, for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that under state law that’s legal.�

Rep. Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat who favors legalization, predicts Washington will take a hands-off approach, based on Obama’s comments.

But he’s quick to add: “We would like to see that in writing.�

The federal government already has taken a similar approach toward users in states that have approved marijuana for medical use.

It doesn’t go after potsmoking cancer patients or grandmas with glaucoma. But it also has made clear that people who are in the business of growing, selling and distributing marijuana on a large scale are subject to potential prosecution for violations of the Controlled Substances Act even in states that have legalized medical use. —— There’s a political calculus for the president, or any other politician, in all of this.

Younger people, who tend to vote more Democratic, are more supportive of legalizing marijuana, as are people in the West, where the libertarian streak runs strong.

Despite increasing public acceptance of marijuana overall, politicians know there are complications that could come with commercializing an addictive substance. Opponents of pot are particularly worried that legalization will result in increased use by young people.

Sabet frames the conundrum for Obama: “Do you want to be the president that stops a popular cause, especially a cause that’s popular within your own party? Or do you want to be the president that enables youth drug use that will have ramifications down the road?�

Marijuana legalization advocates offer politicians a rosier scenario, in which legitimate pot businesses eager to keep their operating licenses make sure not to sell to minors. “Having a regulated system is the only way to ensure that we’re not ceding control of this popular substance to the criminal market and to black marketeers,� says Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a trade group for legal pot businesses in the U.S. —— While the federal government hunkers down, Colorado and Washington state are moving forward on their own with regulations covering everything from how plants will be grown to how many stores will be allowed.

Tim Lynch, director of the libertarian Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, predicts “the next few years are going to be messy� as states work to bring a black-market industry into the sunshine.

California’s experience with medical marijuana offers a window into potential pitfalls that can come with wider availability of pot.

Dispensaries for medical marijuana have proliferated in the state, and regulation has been lax,

prompting a number of cities around the state to ban dispensaries.

In May, the California Supreme Court ruled that cities and counties can ban medical marijuana dispensaries. A few weeks later, Los Angeles voters approved a ballot measure that limits the number of pot shops in the city to 135, down from an estimated high of about 1,000.

This isn’t full-scale buyer’s remorse, but more a course correction before the inevitable next push for full-on legalization in the state. —— Growing support for legalization doesn’t mean everybody wants to light up: Barely one in 10 Americans used pot in the past year.

Those who do want to see marijuana legalized range from libertarians who oppose much government intervention to people who want to see an activist government aggressively regulate marijuana production and sales.

For some, money talks: Why let drug cartels rake in untaxed profits when a cut could go into government coffers?

There are other threads in the growing acceptance of pot.

People think it’s not as dangerous as once believed. They worry about high school kids getting an arrest record. They see racial inequity in the way marijuana laws are enforced. They’re weary of the “war on drugs.�

Opponents counter with a 2012 study finding that regular use of marijuana during teen years can lead to a long-term drop in IQ, and another study indicating marijuana use can induce and exacerbate psychotic illness in susceptible people.

They question the notion that regulating pot will bring in big money, saying revenue estimates are grossly exaggerated.

They reject the claim that prisons are bulging with people convicted of simple possession by citing federal statistics showing only a small percentage of federal and state inmates are behind bars for that alone.

They warn that baby boomers who draw on their own innocuous experiences with pot are overlooking the much higher potency of today’s marijuana.

In 2009, concentrations of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in pot, averaged close to 10 percent in marijuana, compared with about 4 percent in the 1980s, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “If marijuana legalization was about my old buddies at Berkeley smoking in People’s Park once a week I don’t think many of us would care that much,� says Sabet, who helped to found Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a group that opposes legalization. “It’s really about creating a new industry that’s going to target kids and target minorities and our vulnerable populations just like our legal industries do today.� —— So how bad, or good, is pot?

J. Michael Bostwick, a psychiatrist at the Mayo Clinic, set out to sort through more than 100 sometimes conflicting studies after his teenage son became addicted to pot, and turned his findings into a 22-page article for Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2012.

For all of the talk that smoking pot is no big deal, Bostwick says, he determined that “it was a very big deal. There were addiction issues. There were psychosis issues.

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STOLEN: from South Main Street address in Piqua, 6000 watt generator, Troy Built brand name, REWARD D of $100 for return or information, ation, (937)418-5331.

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PIQUA, 8750 Looney Road, oad, Thursday, Friday 9am-5pm, 5pm, Saturday 9am-1pm, LARGE RGE SALE!! Furniture, linens,, microwave, bar stools, lawn awn mower, tools, adjustable trailer railer hitch, collectibles, rugs, sleds, leds, antiques, wheelbarrow, Many miscellaneous items, PIQUA, 917 Caldwell Street, reet, Thursday & Friday 9-3pm, Saturday 9-Noon, HUGE SALE, ALE, everything priced to sell, girls clothes, 18M-3T, double stroller, crib, toys, tools ls & building supplies, dog cage, age, lots of miscellaneous.

PIQUA, 9450 North Hetzler tzler Road, Thursday 9am-4pm,, Friday 9am-3pm, Furniture, Antiques, glassware, stove, deer feeder, 0-4T boys clothing, hing, toys, bicycles, log splitter, motorcycle, lots of Miscellaneous eous household items.

SIDNEY, Lehman High School, hool, SR 29 at I-75. Main entrance. ance.

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2pm. p Lehman music program Le hman mus ic p rogr am ffunundraiser. TVs, PC, fax, microwave, iron plant stand, lawn chairs, Weber grill, lamps, mps, dresser, bamboo wine-rack. rack.

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PIQUA 3224 Sioux Drive Thursday and Friday 8am-5pm m-5pm Large multifamily, furniture, e, radial arm saw, table saw, oversized chair, formal dining g set, kitchen miscellaneous, clothes, othes, bikes, home and holiday decor, linens.

Street PIQUA 515 Spring S treet Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 8am-5pm Movies, books, housewares, wrestling stling figures, Hello Kitty items, ems, Bengals items, Mary Kay, clothing, lots of toys and d collectibles, games, big screen le ct ib le s, gam es , b ig sc c re en TV,, see ou ourr low pr prices TV ic es PIQUA Historic District Neighborhood garage sale!

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PIQUA, 1106 Maplewood Drive, Friday 9-4pm, pass-load s-load gun, roof jacks, weight bench & weights, Christmas decoracorations and lots of miscellaneous. EVERYTHING MUST GO. G O. PIQUA, 1111 South Street, t, Friday, Saturday 8-?, LARGE ARGE GARAGE SALE, antiques, s, collectibles, tools, books, video games, household items, s, furniture, nice selection, something for everyone!

PIQUA, 200 West High Street, P IQUA, 2 00 W est H igh S treet, Thursday Friday 9-4pm, T h ur s d a y & F ri d a y 9 -4pm, SAINT JAMES ANNUAL YARD SALE! Something Y AR D S AL E ! So me t hi n g ffor or everyone!! case off rrain e veryone!! IIn n ca se o ain n ssale ale will be postponed to a later date.

PIQUA, 4454 State Route e 185, Friday 9-5pm, Saturday 9-3pm, -3pm, household goods, costume tume jewelry, craft items, baby items, small furniture pieces, eces, bicycles, collection of bells, b clothing, lots of miscellaneous. eous.

PIQUA, 5085 Versailles Road, PI QUA, 5 085 Ve rsailles R oad, Thursday, Friday 9-5pm, Saturday 9-noon, various houseouseh ld items, artwork, Vera Bradhold B d ley bags, light fixtures, children clothing, sizes 5,6-10, 0, juniors, Longaberger baskets, skets, holiday decorations, lots ots of miscellaneous.

COVINGTON, 5850 NewberryberryWashington Road, Saturday day & Sunday, 9-6. Tools, furniture, niture, TVs, just about everything thing else!

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PIQUA, 6235 North Free Road, Thursday, Friday Saturday, 9am-5pm, Sunday 9am2pm, Clothes, trailer, rooster 2p m, Cl ot hes, tra iler , ro oste r items, items, mens items,, it ems, cow it ems, m ens it ems,, GPS, poles, G P S , ttools, o o l s , ffishing i s h in g p ol e s , purses, shoes, toys, lasers, asers, Lots of miscellaneous

PIQUA, South Downing PI QUA, 747 Sout h D ownin wnin g Street, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 9-2pm, BACKYARD YARD SALE

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CASSTOWN C SSTOWN 5104 East state Route 55 Friday and Saturday urday 9am-4pm New, used, and d vintage items, puzzles, books, ooks,, adult magazines, adu lt clothing, hing,, lamps, jewelry, tack, bedding, dding,, towels, tablecloths/napkins, pkins,, artwork, ccards, ards, a r t w o r k , ccraft/sewing raft/sewing glasssupplies, tools, china, g lassware, Avon, NASCAR, Tupperware. FREE ITEMS S No baby items or kids clothes. thes..

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COVINGTON, 9415 West st US 36, Thursday-Saturday 9-5pm, 9-5pm, 5pm, ADOPTION BENEFIT SALE, furniture, small appliances, nces, new vacuum, wood-chipper, pper, car top carrier, Longaberger, erger, pfaltzgraff dishes, household, ehold, books, all b o ok s , cclothing l ot h i n g a ll ssizes, iz e s , shoes, baked goods, lots more.

2464 Peters TROY, 2 464 Pete rs Road, Friday & Saturday 11am-4pm, pm, Daycare Closing sale, Inside side Safe Harbor Ministries buildSa fe Ha rbor Minis tries buil uil ding, toddler & preschool tables, bles, chairs, cots, toys, tricycles, s, 6 seat infant feeding table, playlayground items, office equipuipment, household decor, new n Titan commercial generator,, air compressor

TROY 1995 DeWeese Road 9amThursday and Friday 9 am5:30pm HUGE MULTIFAMAMILY GARAGE/MOVING SALE. IL YG ARAGE/MOVING SAL ALE..

No Early Birds. Baby and kids items, strollers including one double, clothing including ding men's large shirts and size e 36 pants, country decor pant s, cou ntry d ecor items, s, living room set, bedroom set,, computer desk, loft bed, youth outh bed, kitchen items, outside side light fixture, food used golf balls,, seasonal decorations, ons,, humidifier, fabric by the bolt,, bolts of gray Organza still ill in plastic, lamps, VCR, DVD, bird cages, microwave, garden rden tools, Everything must go!

TROY 2821 Carriage West Court Friday and Saturday rday 9am-2pm Household items, ems, furniture, lots of toys, clothes thes TROY, 127 West Market Street, Friday 10-6pm, Saturday 11-3pm CASH AND CARRY ONLY!!! Huge 50% % off all inventory sale on all dresses wedding dress es from prom to we d dding to store fixtures etc. $5 on n up, $50 prom dresses, $75 wedw d g ding.

Care Child/Elderly Car e CHILD CARE wanted, your C HI LD C AR E w a nt ed , yyo ur home. Day shift. Needed ded ASAP! (937)418-6031.

Drivers & Delivery DRIVER Dancer Logistics is looking ing for Class A CDL driver with h at least 2 years experience for home daily runs, over the road and regional. Great Benefits and great home time me and your weekends off. Also lso looking for Teams to run r West coast.

Please apply at: 900 Gressel Dr Delphos, Oh or call (419)692-1435

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DENTAL ASSISTANT NT Are e you energetic, fun lovoving, and committed to pammpering patients?

Hiring full time experienced, ed, chair side Dental Assistant, ant, with current Radiographerr license, to be a member of our team, 32 hours o ur ccaring a ri n g te a m, 3 2 h o ur u s per week, with benefits, no medical Email resume to: drvantreese@gmail.com g m or mail to: Dr Vantreese 2627 North Broadway Ave ve Sidney, OH 45365

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PARAMEDICS/EMTs AMEDICS/EMTs AMBULETTE ULETTE DRIVERS Looking for professional, sional, caring individuals to join our growing ing team in all areas.

New Hourly Pay Rates!

FT & PT T positions available.

EMTs: $11 AEMTs: MTs: $13 Paramedics: $15 Night shift premiums! remiums! Run Bonuses! __________________________________________________ ______________________________ ___ Ambulette Drivers - transporting ansporting patients to/from medicall appointments by wheelchair van. Full-time $9/hr.

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Auctions

OUTSTANDING AUCTION OUTST TANDIN ANDING G PUBLIC AUCTIO N A.M. Saturday, y, June ne 29,, 2013 - 9:30 A .M .

LOCATION: E.. Ash St., Piqua, Ohio 45356 LOCA ATION: Piqua National Guard ard Armory, 623 E 356 DIRECTIONS: I-75, Exit 82, go o west on St. Rt. 36 ½ mile to sale location on COLLECTABLES VINTAGE GUNS - ANTIQUES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CO LLECT TABLES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VINT TAGE & PRIMITIVE IVE VINTAGE KITCHEN FURNITURE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VINT TAGE KIT C CHEN ITEMS - MODERN FURNITURE E CROCKS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ACORN ELECTRIC C LIFT CHAIR - PROFESSIONAL KARAOKE OKE EQUIPMENTCROCK EQUIPMENT CROC CK LAMPS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; PRIMITIVE ITEMS Guns; gauge GUNS: 3 Winchester Model 37 Shot G uns; 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 20 gauge Shot Guns, one is Red Letter; 12 ga auge Chest; Single Shot; Model 94 Winchester 30-30.

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â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Star Leasing â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Company We are located just off US 33 between Bellefontaine and Marysville, OH near the Honda plants.

Mechanics needed in the shop, in our mobile trucks and for a mobile truck located in St. Paris, OH.

HIRING NOW GENERAL LABOR plus CDL TRUCK DRIVERS Training provided Excellent wage & benefits Apply at 15 Industry Park Ct Tipp City (937)667-6772

MATERIAL HANDLER

Please visit our website at www.starleasing.com for an application.

Fill out online or fax the completed application to (937)644-2858.

Star Leasing is an equal opportunity employer Medical/Health FRONT DESK/ EFDA Seeking self-starter with organizational, patient communication/computer skills to handle activities in a high quality, restorative dental practice. Prior dental/ medical experience a plus but not required. Training supplied. 30-40 hrs.

E-mail resume: dentistryresume@hotmail.com

TRUCK DRIVER Class A CDL

Must be willing to work 40+hours per week Including Saturdays.

Apply at: 9850 Looney Road Piqua, OH Between 8:00AM and 4:00PM

LIVE STOCK GATES, 16 foot heavy steel painted livestock gates, good condition, $80.00 per gate. Call (937)492-1157.

Pets

NOW HIRING FOR: FT, PT & PRN STNAs for all shifts!

Part Time Dietary evenings & weekends Cooking experience a plus, but not necessary Apply in person at 75 Mote Drive Covington, Ohio 45318 STNA Sidney Care Center is hiring qualified Night shift STNA. We offer great pay and 12 hours shifts.

Please apply in person at: 510 Buckeye Avenue Sidney, OH 45365 For Sale By Owner

Gravel Hauled, Laid & Leveled Driveways & Parking Lots

REFRIGERATOR, GE Profile, side-by-side, excellent condition, (937)552-7786

875-0153 698-6135

Baby Items CRIB, toddler bed, changing table, pack-n-play, bassinet, booster, HANDICAP ITEMS, walker, commode, toilet riser, tub/ shower chairs, canes, more! (937)339-4233

MINIMUM CHARGES APPLY

Landscaping

GRAVEL & STONE Shredded Topsoil Topsoil Shredded Fill Dirt Dirt Fill

CRIB, real wood, good condition, stationary sides, $75 (937)339-4233

Driveways â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘ Excavating Excavating Driveways Demolition Demolition

Furniture & Accessories Dining room set, maple, opens to 5 feet, 6 chairs, $150 OBO; matching maple hutch, $100; 3 table set(end, coffee and sofa),solid wood, $100 (937)524-1026 KITTEN, 9 weeks old, male, black/white, healthy rescue cat, wormed and 1st shots, $45, needs a loving forever home. Call (937)773-1686 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS, ready for new home. Both parents on premises. 2 females, 1 male. $250 each. (937)4924059 or (937)489-1438.

JACK RUSSELL BOSTON TERRIER mix puppies, first shots and wormed, 6 weeks old, $75 each, call (937)6221404 after 4pm.

KITTENS, adorable, playful, healthy, 8 weeks, brothers & sisters, need indoor forever homes with responsible owners, consider adopting a pair, they do better with a buddy, (937)492-7478, leave message MASTIFF PUPPIES, 3 male 3 female, asking $500, parents on premises, 3 brindle, 3 fawn.

Call (937)622-0931

POWER TOOLS excellent condition, hand guns as new, 027 trains-turn key. Call (248)694-1242

Mobile Veterinary Service Treating Dogs, Cats & Exotics

Land Care

Pools / Spas

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WISE Tree & Shrub Service

Tools SAW, Radio arm, best offer, Saw, 10 inch, best offer, both are in very good condition, (937)245-0903, (937)890-5334 SERVICE / BUSINESS DIRECTORY

â&#x20AC;˘Standing Seam Metal Roofing â&#x20AC;˘New Installation â&#x20AC;˘Metal Roof Repairs â&#x20AC;˘Pole Barn Metal $2.06 LF. â&#x20AC;˘Standing Seam Snap Lock Panels

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APPLIANCE REPAIR 1999 CHEVY CORVETTE automatic convertible with approximately 67,000 miles.

This car is in great condition. $20,500 or best offer.

Call Craig at (937)776-0922

937-606-1122

WALKER, adjustable with seat, wheels, basket, brakes, good condition, $35. (937)3394233

Autos Under $5000

1999 CHEVY Malibu, very good condition, new tires, 25.5 gas mileage, $2000, (937)2450903, (937)890-5334

Amy E. Walker, D.V.M. 937-418-5992

Miscellaneous HAY, 50 bales of grass hay, 3x8, never been wet, $50 a bale. Call (937)465-7616

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Autos For Sale

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DINING ROOM TABLE, brass color frame, 6 fabric cushion seats, glass top is heavy, approximately 200lbs, 71"x41" $150 OBO (937)726-2140

P O M - P O O m al e p u p , 1 s t shots, ready to go! $250.

(419)582-4211.

2005 HYUNDAI Elantra, 4 door, $4500, (937)418-8727.

â&#x20AC;˘Refrigerators â&#x20AC;˘Stoves â&#x20AC;˘Washers & Dryers â&#x20AC;˘Dishwashers â&#x20AC;˘ Repair & Install Air Conditioning

937-947-4409 937-371-0454

Miscellaneous

Landscaping, Tree Removal, Painting, Gutters, Plumbing, Lawn Mowing, Hauling, Cleanup, Experienced In All. CALL (937)710-4851 ASK FOR KYLE

937-773-4552

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom, Houses & Apts.

SEIPEL PROPERTIES Piqua Area Only Metro Approved (937)773-9941 9am-5pm Monday-Friday

2 BEDROOM APARTMENT, Piqua, 100A Parkridge Place, $500 monthly, central air & appliances furnished. Call (419)629-3569

We are currently seeking Part-Time Merchandisers to service our accounts in the Sidney, Piqua, Greenville, Troy and Eaton areas.

The chosen candidates will provide customer support by maintaining displays, coolers and shelf space with Pepsi products in designated accounts. Candidates must be 18 years of age, self-motivated, energetic, dependable, and able to lift up to 85 lbs. frequently. Candidate must also have a valLG GULYHUŇ&#x2039;V OLFHQVH ZLWK GH pendable transportation.

Apply on line @ PepsiCo.com/careers M/F/D/V Equal Opportunity Employer

SOCIAL WORKER Licensed to recruit/ license foster homes - job opening in West Liberty. Working knowledge of ODJFS licensing rules and previous licensing experience a plus.

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BY RYAN NAKASHIMA AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft on Wednesday released a preview version of an update to Windows 8, aiming to address some of the gripes people have with the company’s flagship operating system.

At a conference in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that the company pushed hard to get people to adopt a radical new tilebased “Modern” user interface in Windows 8.

Microsoft is now back-pedaling, making it easier to reach and use the older “desktop” interface.

“Let’s make it easier to start applications the way we’re used to,” Ballmer told the audience of software developers. “What we will show you today is a refined blend of our Desktop experience and our Modern experience.”

Microsoft made the preview of Windows 8.1 available for free as a download.

Windows 8.1 will allow people to boot up in Desktop mode. There, they’ll find a button that resembles the old Start button.

It won’t take users to the old Start menu, but to the new “Modern” Windows 8 start screen. Still, the reintroduction of the familiar button may make it easier for longtime Windows users to get accustomed to the changes. A common complaint about Windows 8 is that it hides features and functions, and replaces buttons with gestures and invisible click zones that have to be memorized.

Other new features of Windows 8.1 include more options to use multiple apps. People will be able to determine how much of the screen each app takes while showing up to four different programs, rather than just two. The update will also offer more integrated search results, showing users previews of websites, apps and documents that are on the device, all at once.

Microsoft also touted a broadening array of applications specifically written for Windows 8, among them one from Facebook.

Frank Gillett, an analyst with research firm Forrester, said that with 8.1, Microsoft is doing a

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In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 file photo, the Microsoft Corp. logo, left, is seen on an exterior wall of a new Microsoft store inside the Prudential Center mall, in Boston. Microsoft will use its annual developers conference to release a preview of Windows 8.1, a free update that promises to address some of the gripes people have with the latest version of the companyճ flagship operating system. The Build conference, which began Wednesday, in San Francisco, will give Microsoftճ partners and other technology developers a chance to try out the new system before it becomes available to the general public later in the year. better job of uniting the Desktop and Modern screens, but the changes don’t run deep.

“They smoothed off some rough edges, but they don’t fundamentally change the experience of having two experiences within one operating system,” he said.

The preview version of Windows 8.1 is meant for Microsoft’s partners and other technology developers, but anyone can download it. The release comes exactly eight months after desktops, laptops and tablets with Windows 8 went on sale. The version of the Windows 8.1 update meant for the general public will come later in the year, though the company hasn’t announced a specific date.

Julie Larson-Green, the head of Microsoft’s Windows division, said the update, rapid by Microsoft standards, “shows how much more responsive our engineering has become.”

Many of the new features have been shown already. A three-day Build conference, which started Wednesday in San Francisco, gives Microsoft developers a chance to learn more about the new system and try it out. It also will give the company a chance to explain some of the reasoning behind the update and sell developers on Microsoft’s ambitions to regain relevance lost to Apple’s iPad and various

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Windows 8, released Oct. 26, was meant to be Microsoft’s answer to changing customer behaviors and the rise of tablet computers. The operating system emphasizes touch controls over the mouse and the keyboard, which had been the main way people have interacted with their personal computers since the 1980s.

Microsoft and PC makers had been looking to Windows 8 to revive sales of personal computers, but some people have been put off by the radical makeover. Research firm IDC said the operating system actually slowed down the market. Although Microsoft says it

has sold more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses so far, IDC said worldwide shipments of personal computers fell 14 percent in the first three months of this year, the worst since tracking began in 1994.

Windows 8 was also supposed to make Microsoft more competitive in the growing market for tablet computers. But Windows tablets had less than a 4 percent market share in the first quarter, compared with 57 percent for Android and 40 percent for Apple’s iPad. One big problem is the fact that Windows 8 doesn’t work well on smaller screens, making Windows tablets less competitive with cheaper tablets such

as Apple’s iPad Mini, Google’s Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD. Microsoft built Windows 8 primarily to run on tablets with 10-inch to 12-inch screens, and it is trying to address that shortcoming in Windows 8.1.

It’s crucial that Microsoft sets things right with Windows 8.1 because the outlook for the PC market keeps getting gloomier. IDC now expects PC shipments to fall by nearly 8 percent this year, worse than its previous forecast of a 1 percent dip.

IDC also anticipates tablets will outsell laptop computers for the first time this year.

Microsoft is addressing that shift by banking its future on touch controls.

Its strategy calls for having just one operating system work on both tablets and traditional computers. That allows popular Windows programs such as Office to work well on tablets, too. But in making Windows easy for touch screens, mouse and keyboard commands are more complex to use and figure out.

Apple and Google, on the other hand, believe people use those machines differently and have opted to keep their operating systems separate. Apple, for instance, believes that it can be tiresome to have to constantly move your arm to touch a desktop or laptop screen. That’s not a problem with tablets because you’re already holding it.

As for the growing interest in smaller, cheaper tablets, Microsoft has said the company is working with other manufacturers to make some. At the conference, it didn’t confirm reports that it is making its own.

Microsoft also said very little about Windows RT, the Windows 8 variant that’s designed to run on the same phone-style processors that let the iPad and Android tablets be lighter and have longer battery lives than Windows 8 tablets with PCstyle Intel processors.

Windows RT has been hamstrung by a lack of applications, since it won’t run older Windows programs.

At the conference, Microsoft showed off an Acer tablet with an 8-inch screen — a size that would be a good fit for an RT device — but it ran fullblown Windows 8 instead.

Microsoft Corp. just cut the effective price of its Surface tablet with Windows RT by including a keyboard cover for free.

The cover sells for $120 or $130 on its own.

Microsoft also said this month that it would give buyers of the RT version of Surface the Outlook email and calendar program at no extra charge — joining other Office freebies Excel, Word and Power Point — and sweetening the offer for the device that is priced starting at $499. The new programs will come as part of the Windows 8.1 update.

Books, songs downloaded online to be taxed in Ohio don’t have to collect sales taxes, except in states where they have offices or distribution centers.

Majority Republican lawmakers in Ohio contend that because some retailers have sales representatives in the state or sell products with ads targeting Ohioans, the businesses have “nexus” in Ohio and could have the sales tax can be applied to their items.

Under Ohio’s tax proposal, the sales tax wouldn’t apply to any video programming that’s included in a cable service package. But viewers could expect their Netflix and Hulu Plus subscriptions to be taxed.

The Ohio Department of

Taxation estimates that the state would see an additional $15 million in the next two budget years by applying the sales tax to digital products.

The tax package would also eliminate a sales tax exemption for magazine subscriptions beginning Sept. 1, a change that’s drawn heat from some publishers.

John Dunn, the publisher of Cincinnati Magazine, recently told legislators on an Ohio House committee that it would feel wrong to pass along the tax to his 316,000 readers.

“We all know how it feels when gas prices rise and fall 20 to 40 cents within a three-day time

period,” he said in testimony. “This is no different.”

Absorbing the tax could mean layoffs at the magazine, Dunn added.

Roughly half of the states in the country apply a sales tax to magazine subscriptions, said Brad Weltman, of the Magazine Publishers of America.

Weltman told the House committee that the sales tax on subscriptions has created legal challenges and policy disagreements in other states.

Plus, he said, a challenging economy has forced many magazines to drive down their subscription prices. “Low promotional pricing would yield little in sales tax revenue,” he testified.

Getting rid of the sales tax exemption for magazine subscriptions would bring in $11 million annually to Ohio, according to the state taxation department. The tax change would apply most major magazines, not just those who have offices in Ohio.

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COLUMBUS (AP) — Downloading the latest pop music hit or best-selling crime novel could cost more next year in Ohio.

A package of tax changes added to the state budget would increase the state sales tax and apply it to digital products, such as MP3s, e-books and videos bought on the Internet.

If approved by the Legislature on Thursday, tablet readers and music listeners would find a 5.75 percent state sales tax tacked on to their downloaded items on Jan. 1.

That’s a slight boost from the current rate of 5.5 percent.

Republican Gov. John Kasich told reporters Wednesday that he believed the tax was fair, noting that he frequently downloads books online.

“Look, if you go down the street and you visit a store here and you buy a Kanye West CD, you pay taxes on it,” he said. “If you download it, you don’t.”

“I think it’s entirely appropriate to balance all this out,” Kasich added.

Local taxes also would be applied in tandem to the digital items. That means buyers could see a 7 percent tax in parts of central Ohio, compared

with an 8 percent rate in Cuyahoga County and a 6.75 percent tax in Hamilton County.

Under current law, states can only require stores to collect sales taxes if the store has a physical presence in the state. As a result, many online sales are essentially tax-free, giving Internet retailers an advantage over brickand-mortar stores. Though Ohio law requires consumers to pay a use tax if the items they buy online aren’t taxed by the seller.

Larger retailers with stores all over the country like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target collect sales taxes when they sell goods over the Internet. But online retailers like Amazon

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